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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Synecdoche
Stanza
Aphorism
Recognition
2. A short saying with a moral.
Aphorism
Onomatopoeia
Rising Action
Comic Relief
3. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Complication
Syntax
Parallelism
Myth
4. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Trochee
Analogy
Foot
Narrator
5. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Stanza
Villanelle
Image
Couplet
6. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Solioquy
Elegy
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Trochee
7. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Plot
Foil
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Style
8. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Conceit
Climax
Pyrrhic
Denotation
9. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Repetition
Alliteration
Antagonist
Imagery
10. A character struggles against some outside force.
External Conflict
Dramatic Irony
Foot
Enjambment
11. The organizational form of a literary work.
Anapest
Ode
Structure
Falling Meter
12. The main character of a literary work.
Convention
Protagonist
External Conflict
Falling Meter
13. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Verbal Irony
Nonfiction
Parable
Tone
14. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Cliche
Literal Language
Figurative Language
Epigram
15. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Dialect
Convention
Voice
Exposition
16. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Structure
Ballad
Hyperbole
Fiction
17. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Figurative Language
Theme
Apostrophe
Sonnet
18. What a story or play is about.
Rhyme
Subject
Epic
Flashback
19. The person who 'tells' the story.
Enjambment
Elision
Literal Language
Narrator
20. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
3rd Person (Limited)
Couplet
Exposition
Spondee
21. A four line stanza in a poem.
Parable
Rising Action
Foot
Quatrain
22. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Alliteration
Rhythm
Subplot
Conceit
23. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
1st Person
Repetition
Flashback
Oxymoron
24. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Connotation
Reversal
Catharsis
Couplet
25. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.
Nonfiction
Theme
Situational Irony
Folklore
26. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Convention
Blank Verse
Image
Epic
27. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Dramatic Irony
Comic Relief
Irony
Solioquy
28. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Climax
Symbol
Antagonist
Voice
29. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Imagery
Free Verse
Dramatic Irony
Allegory
30. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Dialogue
Connotation
Situational Irony
Complication
31. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Recognition
Dactyl
Parody
Stereotype
32. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Trochee
External Conflict
Convention
Literal Language
33. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Enjambment
Tone
Diction
Act
34. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.
Aubade
Diction
Understatement
Climax
35. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Flashback
Narrator
Meter
Symbolism
36. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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37. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Caesura
Conceit
Villanelle
Satire
38. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Symbol
Narrator
Parable
Ballad
39. A poem that tells a story.
Couplet
Narrative Poem
Irony
Simile
40. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Blank Verse
Voice
Lyric Poem
Image
41. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Act
Free Verse
Figurative Language
Narrator
42. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
Elegy
Comic Relief
Tone
43. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Suspense
Symbolism
Villanelle
Spondee
44. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Falling Meter
Foot
Convention
Villanelle
45. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Parable
Plot
Point of View
Foil
46. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Trochee
Act
Iamb
Solioquy
47. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Climax
1st Person
Stereotype
Catharsis
48. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
Solioquy
Image
Motif
Elegy
49. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Parable
Aside
Myth
Mood
50. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Flashback
Aside
Oxymoron